Food Plants of Coastal First Peoples

Description

Nancy Turner provides an unsurpassed treatment of more than 100 ethnobotanically significant plants that are used for food by Indigenous People living along Canada’s west coast. Each account contains detailed plant descriptions, color photographs, and discussion on the traditional methods of harvest and preparation.

Condition: New

Binding: Paperback

Published: Royal BC Museum, 2010

Subject Listing: Ethnobotany

ISBN-13: 978-0772656278

Contents: 176 pages

Forward

Preface to the First Edition (1975)

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

Seaweeds

Fern and Their Relatives

Conifers

Flowering Plants: Monocotyledons

Flowers Plants: Dicotyledons

Appendix 1: Some Non-native Food Plants Used by Coastal First Peoples

Appendix 2: Some Plants Considered Poisonous or Inedible by Coastal First Peoples